Re: Different speed CPUs show up as same speed
Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:58:19PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > David Laight <[email protected]> writes: > > > > Wow - differing CPU clock speeds. In most MP setups I know about that > > > > would result in a lock up at some point in the future. > > > > There is no real reason for it to lock up. > > Yes there is. The locking protocols on the two processors are not > guaranteed to have compatible bugs if the processors aren't the same > stepping. I'm pretty surprised that this is working for him -- That's not true -- there's a large chart available from Intel of which steppings are known to work together. -- Thor Lancelot Simon [email protected] But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud